Species: Litomosoides sigmodontis

Parent taxon: Litomosoides

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:42156

Description: filarial parasite of rodents (cotton rats)

BClade: Bclade III

Interested people: Sujai Kumar, Mark Blaxter, Simon Babayan, Graham Thomas

Genome size: 90 Mb

Genome size source: comparison to Brugia malayi

Genome AT%: 65 %

Genome AT% source: comparison to Brugia malayi

Genome Publications:

Transcriptome Publications: PMID:10948183 PMID:14681449

Strain Sequencing Status

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Strain Genome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Litomosoides sigmodontis lab strain established from Cameroon by Odile Bain	ongoing	Mark Blaxter	European Commission (SCOOT and E-PIAF programmes)	Blaxter Lab	The GenePool	(a) Illumina Solexa 50 base paired-end reads to ~50x coverage (70x achieved) (b) Illumina SOLEXA mate pair 100 base reads from 10 kb nominal insert size library to ~ 10-20x coverage (pending)	http://nematodes.org/downloads/959nematodegenomes/blast	1X

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Litomosoides sigmodontis lab strain established from Cameroon by Odile Bain	in annotation	Sujai Kumar Mark Blaxter Graham Thomas	Intramural	Blaxter lab Allen lab and GenePool University of Edinburgh		NEMBASE4: clusterid LSC, updated 08/2008, 3 libraries, 1,631 clusters, 2,699 ESTs	http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4 http://nematodes.org/downloads/959nematodegenomes/blast	1X

Phylogenetic context